Columbia University begrudgingly admits the benefits of CO2 on crops

From the “what took them so long” department…. Could global warming’s top culprit help crops? Study looks at how carbon dioxide might cut effects of rising heat From THE EARTH…

Palestine Redux

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Back in December of last year I put up a post which said in its entirety: Very short post. I read today that Palestine has been granted…

Vinerism strikes the snowmobiling industry

From the same sort of Dr. David Viner mindset that brought us “Snowfall will be a thing of the past” comes this teary-eyed missive: Snowobiling could be hard hit by…

The "Exxon Climate Papers" show what Exxon and climate science knew and shared

If they withheld or suppressed climate research from the public or shareholders, it is not apparent in these documents. Guest essay by Andy May New York Attorney General Eric T.…

CEI formally objects to climate Witch Hunt from Virgin Islands attorney general

By Andrew Restuccia A lawyer representing the Competitive Enterprise Institute today formally objected to a subpoena from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker that demands a decade’s worth of internal documents…

Study claims: Ancient tectonic activity was trigger for ice ages

From the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and the “thank goodness we have plenty of free CO2 in the atmosphere today” department comes this claim: Continental shifting may have acted as…

Hump day hilarity – Democracy poll toll

Josh writes: There is a delightful story in the UK news this week: After Internet users overwhelmingly voted to christen Britain’s new $300 million research ship “Boaty McBoatface” in an online naming poll, a government official suggested the name…

Kevin Trenberth’s Climate Attribution Studies versus Useful Science – Part 1 Hurricane Sandy

Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Useful climate science…

Aussie Attorney General: "If the [climate] science is settled, why do we need research scientists to continue inquiring into the settled science?"

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Attorney General George Brandis has stirred the climate pot down under, by asking a simple yet devastating question. “If the science is settled,…

Harnessing Infinity: The Promise of Quantum Computing

Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Register has published a fascinating video about Quantum Computing, an interview with D-Wave, a company which manufactures what they claim are quantum computing systems.…

Newsbytes: Big Science Is Broken

Also: Poll: Just 6 Percent Of Americans Say They Trust News Media From the Lewpaper department: Science is broken. That’s the thesis of a must-read article in First Things magazine,…

Sea level rise: Plenty of time for Noah to build the Ark

Guest essay by Albert Parker We may consider all the tide gauges in the latest PSMSL survey of relative mean sea level secular trends (http://www.psmsl.org/products/trends/trends.txt ). The population changes year…

Curious: A Total Solar Irradiance nosedive seen in SORCE data

I don’t know if this is a real measurement, and that the Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) measured by the SORCE project is real, or if we are seeing another sensor…

Systematic Error in Climate Measurements: The surface air temperature record

Guest essay by Pat Frank Presented at World Federation of Scientists, Erice, Sicily, 20 August 2015 This is a version of the talk I gave about uncertainty in the global…

4ft of Global Warming Cancels Denver Cannabis Rally

Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Twitchy – A large public event, a celebration of Cannabis culture, was cancelled in Denver on Sunday, because of heavy snowfall. According to Twitchy,…

RIP Dr. William Gray – hurricane forecast pioneer, climate skeptic

I knew this was coming, as I had a heads-up from Joe D’Aleo last week that the end was nearing. I knew Dr. Bill Gray through my work in climate,…

“Smoke & Fumes,” Part Deux: Exxon Knew "The entire theory of climatic changes by CO2 variations is questionable."

Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from ExxonKnew In my previous post on this subject, we examined some of the documents which supposedly proved that ExxonMobil and the…

A Climategate-like bombshell: State Attorney Generals colluded with Green groups to punish political opponents

Guest essay by Chris Horner Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and those…

April 2016 ENSO Update – La Niña Alerts Issued for Later This Year and NINO1+2 SSTa Are Near Zero Deg C

Guest Post by Bob Tisdale This post provides an update of many of the ENSO-related variables we presented as part of the 2014-15 El Niño Series.  For the posts about…

Three Little Known Scientists Who Changed Our World View of Climate

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball In this age of specialization, it is very difficult for scientists to integrate information and create a wider cross-discipline understanding of how the Earth works.…